Covered button



(No Model.)

A. M. LOUGEE.

' COVERED BUTTON- No. 523,149. Patented July 1'7, 1894.

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AMANDA M. LOUGEE, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

COVERED BUTTON.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 523,149, dated July17', 1894. Application filed December 9, 1893- Serial No. 493,248. (Nomodel.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that -I, AMANDA M. LOUGEE, of Boston, county of Suffolk,State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in CoveredButtons,of which the following description, in connection with the accompanyingdrawings, is a specification, like letters on the drawings representinglike parts.

Heretofore cloth-covered buttons have had a projection of textilematerial at the back by which they may be fastened to garments I face ofthe button and to that extent destroys the cloth-covered character ofthe button, besides being exposed to wear and consequent unsightliness.In my invention, I make the face plate flat and instead of turning outthe metal thereof around the central opening, I turn the cloth coveringin beneath the edge of such opening, and cover the opening by aninternal piece of fabric of the same kind as that employed to cover thebutton, so that, while the button may be attached by through and throughstitches, its face is of uniform material and without projections. Thebutton may be provided, in addition, with a filling piece of pierceablematerial.

Figure 1 in section shows one of my improved buttons; and Fig. 2 asectional diagram with the different parts of the button separated.

The button to be herein described and claimed is composed of a frontplate a, preferablya metallic disk with its edge overturned, the saidplate'having a central opening a; a back plate I), also preferably ofmetal having its edge flanged to fit within the .overturned edge of theplate a, the plate b having a central hole 19'; a textile covering ahavlng a central opening 0, the edges of the covering being shut inbetween the rims of the plates a, b; a face piece (1, preferably of thesame material as the covering 0 as the face piece is to cross the hole0' at the rear side of the front plate; and a non-metallic or textileback e, preferably of cloth. I also prefer to place between the facepiece at and the textile back e a non-metallic filling f to thus addsolidity and strength to the button. The face piece and textile backlocated between the front and back plates are clamped at their edgesbetween the rims of said plates, and the textile back may be shaped asshown, to project more or less from the hole'in the back plate, as inordinary cloth covered buttons.

The covering 0 at and about its central opening is inturned through thehole a of the front plate, and the face piece of like material gives tothe face of the button alike color, but my invention would not bedeparted from if the face piece were of a different material or color.

My improved button may be stitched to clothing by a stitch taken throughthe face piece, filling, and textile back, the openings at, b affordingready passage for the needle, and the stitch taken may be a fancy orornamental stitch if desired, so as to show the thread at the center ofthebutto'n in a fancy or more or less elaborate and ornamental stitch,and this stitching may be done by machine or by hand.

Having described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure byLetters Patent, is

1. The herein described button, composed of a front plate and a backplate of metal, each provided with a central opening, a textile coverfor the front plate having its center perforated and the edges of suchperforation turned under the front plate and confined Within the buttonbeneath the edges of the opening in the .front plate so as to present asubstantially flat or plane wearing face, a face piece of textilematerial arranged within the button and exposed at the opening in thefront plate, whereby the exposed face of the button is composed whollyof cloth and without visible metal, and a textile back arranged withinthe button next the back. plate and exposed at the opening in such 10back, said parts being combined and arranged substantially as describedto enable the stitches to be passed through the face piece, the fillingand textile back as set forth.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this specification in thepresence of 15 two subscribing Witnesses.

AMANDA M. LOUGEE.

Witnesses:

WM. N. SWAIN, G. W. AIKEN.

